The Latest Breaking News from Autism

Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

The Health Secretary is concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times in an interview that he personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism

In society, we’re expected to follow all kinds of unspoken rules about how to behave around others. Break them, and you risk coming across as rude or out of place. But for people with autism, reading those cues isn’t always straightforward. So when one man joined his mother’s dinner with…

Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage

The boy could not speak for himself. Thankfully, the school surveillance cameras did.

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once firmly stated vaccines do not cause autism has been revised to say they might, a shift that surfaced during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation process.

The website now states that “studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”